According to internal communications, officials from the Joe Biden regime successfully pressured the fact-checking website Snopes to change its rating on a fact check regarding a prospective federal ban on gas stoves.
“Sent over tough letter to this writer yesterday when the initial claim was rated as ‘mixed,'” Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) communications director Pamela Rucker Springs bragged in an email to White House assistant press secretary Michael Kikukawa, linking to an updated fact check. Kikukawa responded, saying the change was “so helpful.”
Initially, Snopes had issued a “mixture” rating on claims the Biden regime was contemplating a ban on gas-powered stoves, influenced by statements by Richard Trumka Jr., a member CPSC.
Trumka Jr. had said such a ban was “on the table,” and the CPSC was weighing regulations “drastically reducing emissions or banning gas stoves entirely.”
However, Snopes downplayed Trumka Jr.’s pronouncements and changed its fact check rating to “false” after Biden regime officials leaned on them, asserting the CPSC is “not currently considering a ban on gas stoves.”
Watchdog group the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) laid bare the process by which the regime arranged the changes by securing emails between CPSC and White House communications officials.
“A commissioner appointed by President Biden wanted to ban gas stoves, and he got caught, provoking a public outcry,” commented FGI spokesman Peter McGinnis.
“So, the CPSC staff leaned on Snopes, seeking to counter the narrative… And the White House finds this ‘helpful.’ Helpful with what?” he questioned.
“This goes beyond dysfunction — the government using sympathetic media to censor inconvenient news.”
